For undergraduate and graduate courses in data communications, telecommunications, and networking.
A business-driven approach to understanding data communications.
Explaining the why and how of data communications, Michael Gendron’s new textbook, Business Driven Data Communications, takes a business-driven infrastructure design approach—rather than solely focusing on a technical networking approach. Overall, this text presents technical material within the focus of business process support and infrastructure design.
Unit 1: ICT Infrastructure Components; a Technical Overview
Chapter 1: ICT Infrastructure Introductory Concepts
Chapter 2: Building the Local Area Network Using Ethernet
Chapter 3: Extending the LAN through WAN Connections
Chapter 4: Wrapping up Service, User and Enterprise User Components
Unit 2: Additional ICT Concepts
Chapter 5: Obtaining Services Through Cloud Computing
Chapter 6: Security
Unit 3: Understanding the Business of Infrastructure Design
Chapter 7: Infrastructure and the Enterprise
Chapter 8: Business Processes
Chapter 9: Assessing the Business Value of ICT Resource Investments
Unit 4: Steps to the Strategic Alignment of IT
Chapter 10: Analyzing the Organization and its Environment
Chapter 11: Designing ICT: Documenting Process and Technology Recommendations
Chapter 12: Summarizing the Business Driven Infrastructure Design Cycle: Analysis, Design, Implementation and Post-Implementation
For undergraduate and graduate courses in data communications, telecommunications, and networking.
A business-driven approach to understanding data communications.
Explaining the why and how of data communications, Michael Gendron’s new textbook, Business Driven Data Communications, takes a business-driven infrastructure design approach–rather than solely focusing on a technical networking approach. Overall, this text presents technical material within the focus of business process support and infrastructure design.
Get students to apply the concepts: Running Case. A running case is included within each unit that reinforces the concepts in each chapter. For each chapter, the end of chapter question will allow students to incorporate their knowledge from other business courses, and develop solutions to the real world business problems.
See the concepts in context: Business Problem Solving Focus. This text provides several vignettes and in-chapter examples that highlight the concepts in a business context, allowing students to build on previous business and information systems knowledge.
See more animations. Author's website. More animations for the book can be seen on the author's website http://bddc.gendron.info